Pitango September 2026 Newsletter

QuantHealth raises $45M Series B
The clinical trial simulation platform has modeled 600+ trials and is used by 12 of the world’s 20 largest pharma companies. Read more 

Connie Health raises $40M Series B
The funding will help scale its technology and local Medicare expertise, making it easier for people to choose and navigate the right health plan. Read more

Catch emerges from stealth with $5M seed round
The AI admin assistant handles scheduling, travel, email and everyday admin for business leaders autonomously. Read more

• DriveNets and AMD published a joint reference architecture for deploying AI clusters at production scale. 
• PsiQuantum secures $125M DARPA agreement
  The agreement will support the development of utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing. Read more 
• Tomorrow.io wins $49 million NOAA weather modeling contract
  The weather intelligence company will be the prime contractor on EPIC, NOAA’s program for advancing U.S. weather prediction and moving new science into operations faster. Read more

• We celebrated AppsFlyer’s $1B+ strategic investment with billboards across six prominent Tel Aviv locations. 
• DoubleAI is preparing to launch its first self-serve developer product, built on WarpSpeed, following strong benchmark results across GPU kernels, data analytics, quantum circuits and chip design.
• Oshi crossed 100+ retail locations nationwide, joined UNFI’s UpNext Growth Program for national distribution, and took over Times Square with the first plant-based seafood campaign to run there. 
• Laguna Health moved its post-call clinical documentation onto NVIDIA’s open Nemotron model, cutting inference costs by 85% and latency by half, with zero hallucinations. 
• Zorro launched Ori, an AI co-pilot that simplifies the health plan selection process for employees by turning it into an active conversation.
• Quantum Source published a blueprint for fault-tolerant quantum computing that pairs stationary atoms with flying photons, targeting a practical path to millions of qubits without the overhead photonic systems usually require. 
• The CEOs of Cellular Intelligence and Novo Nordisk Foundation shared the stage at TechBBQ in Copenhagen, and keynoted the conference’s deep tech track.